In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens

A collection of early personal and political essays from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Color Purple.

Includes a new letter written by the author
 

What is a womanist? Alice Walker sets out to define the concept in this anthology of early essays and other nonfiction pieces. As she outlines it, a womanist is a person who prefers to side with the oppressed: with women, with people of color...